Soup looks good.

We had take out/takeaway butter chicken with naan. I made raita. It was very good. I can’t make up my mind if I like butter chicken or chicken korma best.

Dinner was soup and salad, again. Breakfast was delightful! The cowboy bean kimchi bread is delightful. First sandwich for several weeks. Close textured meatloaf and smoked gouda, with red cabbage ginger ”sauerkraut” (texture more like crunchy cole slaw), and I cut a thin slice to make a lid (half turned over, below, to let the steam out). Mustard, mayo, sriracha, steam warmed. Just greasy enough to be yummy, not enough to be icky. SO good!

Just pulled out my Madhur Jaffrey book. Something Indian is on my 'Storm list'. UUgh.

Can't believe this is happening again. Blizzard about to begin. We started prepping Friday....this could top a record set in the late 60's.

I've been running on Culinary adrenaline since mid October. This prep turns out a 'walk-in-the-park'. I braised a couple dozen chicken thighs yesterday among other prep....

Storm prep soup for brunch

This looks good...

You have been busy Sleeve with a fantastic array of good food. It was a good find of the Cashew Butter Chicken Korma but perhaps it will add to my dilemma as I then may not be able to choose between all three Lol!!

It must be soup weather all over! Here I've been eating, still trying to be healthy but not always succeeding,like the night I made this beef pot pie. I used leftover pot roast and SharonCB's Never Fail Pastry. It was sure good, though probably not extremely healthy, LOL. Ever since Neely and Floral were discussing savory pies here, I've wanted some so I finally caved in:

Other days we had whole wheat pasta with some chicken, brussels sprouts and kale and cabbage slaw:

I baked a loaf of maple oatmeal bread:

Some stuffed poblanos with sauteed spinach and roasted butternut squash:

A vegetable and noodle stir fry:

Jambalaya with brown rice and salad:

Air fryer flounder and leftover stir fry:

Beans and greens:

The original pot roast with salad that started the beef pot pie:

Ratatouille with wild and long grain rice and chicken thighs. I did peel the skin off the chicken, which is over there on the left side of the plate waiting to be discarded.

All this good food must have attracted some company for supper, this guy/girl was right outside my kitchen window next to the bird feeder. There were a pair of them, but I only got a picture of this one.

And that brings me up to date with everything I have a picture of, I think.

Keep cooking, everyone, I'm living vicariously here, LOL

Annie

That is some pie Annie and I’ll bet it tasted great. The savoury pies we have here would not have the amount of meat deliciousness you’ve put in yours. Some have shortcrust pastry and others have puff pastry and some have a combination of both with short crust on the bottom and puff on top. I prefer a good buttery short crust.

Two of our previous dinners with no pastry involved.

First Chicken thighs with bone in and skin on cooked in one dish in the oven a sort of chicken cacciatore with marcaroni. Served with salad and bread to mop up the juices.

Second night, same chicken as before but served with broccoli.

After the holidays i made Julia's Beef Bourguignon over noodles. Later from a quart in the freezer...a rare winter treat.

The culinary adventures continue. Finally made Korma last night.

prepped early am with my morning coffee

had some locally made flatbread in the freezer and Turkish Cacik from day before Kofta but decided against. Not needed. Made way too much base Korma sauce so into the freezer....two pints for later.

Legendary blizzard. My itty bitty hometown, 4 hours south, coastal ChesapeakeBay, recorded 21 inches. In my lifetime never more than 8-10. 6 inches was major storm in my youth.

We had 18". Never lost power but a few flickering minutes or three. We ate well. Nothing else to do while dealing with all the snow.

i used HotThaiKitchen recipes

The Korma looks delicious Sleeve and lots of other good looking meals.

One night I made Smoked Cod with olive oil and mashed potato which sounds very basic but if you give it it’s French name Brandade de Morue, it becomes obvious that it is very good. Comfort food plus!!

THat beef pie looks delicious, Sleevendog, and I agree with the cooking while it's snowing. No use in shoveling until it quits, so I might as well cook something. We get a lot of snow and got a lot of snow this year, I don't even know how much. My part of Northwest Michigan averages between 75 and 100 inches of snow, but a town in the Upper Peninsula, Munising, is nearing 200 inches this year. I can't even picture shoveling 17+ feet of snow.

Neely, I never met a potato I didn't like, so I'm sure I'd like that too.

No pictures, but we had burgers and potatoes from the air fryer tonight, and it just hit the spot.

Annie

Earlier today I survived what can only have been an assassination attempt by my daughter. I was riding in DD’s car and started getting debilitatingly hungry, like low blood sugar faint hungry. DD reached into her console and handed me a small meat stick - like a Slim Jim but much smaller. It was brown and hard and wrinkly. I peeled the plastic apart and took a bite. Oh ghaaag. I spat the half chewed bite out the window and, choking back bile, stared at the ancient string cheese, so old that it had turned brown and wrinkly. DD said it was my fault for not carefully inspecting the snack she’d handed me. I said “et tu, Brutus?”

So the melding time helped the RG Christmas Lima bean and cabbage soup immensely. Then, I figured the tastiest of the suggested garnishes were lemon juice and red pepper flakes. I didn't want to cut my big lemon for a couple of squirts so thought a dribble of red wine vinegar would do. Both did their jobs, adding dimension and interest. Protein was rewarmed beef skewers.

I made up a breakfast thing. It started as a roesti with shredded potatoes, then went off script. Seasoned the potatoes, mixed in a couple beaten eggs and a bunch of match-sticked ham, cooked it in a covered pan until the underside was brown, flipped and cooked until the other side was brown, and served with some grated cheese. It was good. My electrician liked it! She’s normally vegetarian but ate the ham anyway. Then we went off to work on the triplex.

Penne and meatballs… simple tomato sauce.

DH went bought us Banh mi for lunch

This wasn’t dinner… it was breakfast but it was the tastiest meal I’ve had for ages.

Asian omelette.

Two eggs beaten and placed in warm fry pan with one tablespoon of evoo. Added a handful of bean sprouts and cooked gently till nearly set then folded over for a couple of minutes.

On to plate and sprinkled with green onion and chopped coriander/cilantro and splashed with fish sauce, soy sauce and pepper. Served with slices of toasted focaccia drizzled in olive oil. Made twice for myself and DH.

Those look splendid, Neely.

So, word picture: White microwave plate. White with brown spots, bulging half moon, random spots of orange-red translucence. This was the International breakfast: Italian (flavor) chicken sausage, American "Korean Style" kimchee, yellow mustard, hoisin sauce, in half a pita. Truly delicious. And warm and drippy. And SO good!

Have not had a good omelet in ages. Putting that on the list for Sunday Brunch...

Pizza night...

Edited to say, this was a late lunch. 2pm. Our BIG meal for the day. We we're @ Sprouts & splurged on Dark Chocolate peanut clusters for a noon snack.

Tuna Waldorf Salad on Home Made Wheat Bread. (Zojirushi Bread Machine)

Ingredients: Tuna, mayo Diced: celery, walnuts, red apple

Small dinner for me… one slice of roast pork with crackling, two small baked potatoes, brussel sprouts and tiny asparagus, small piece of bread to mop up the gravy.

A friend asked for “potato pave” so we looked up the dish. DD says it is the douchiest potato recipe! Nevertheless she made a test batch a couple days ago and last night I was assigned to the browning. They turned out well but for the next test batch, some will be browned in the oven (can we save time) and others will get an herb infused soaking (can we vary up the flavor).

Wow, my phone has a closeup lens.

Some people disrespected their douchy French potato treat

The rest of dinner was a lemon-ginger matza ball chicken soup.

Is it obsessive complusive JL that I tried to count the potato layers, anyway I got to about 22. I guess you would need a mandolin to get the finess and amount needed. They look so cute all mumbling together…reminded me of Daleks.

Dinners were

Calamari rings with an Asian salad

And stir fry shrimp/prawns with snow peas and noodles in an oyster sauce (from a bottle) so quick and pretty good. Shrimp were frozen deveined from this country.

yum. Just prepped an Asia style slaw with my morning coffee.

Last night...

That looks yummy. I love shrimp, and would like to make an oyster stew someday.

Yes, mandolin cut.

DD made cassoulet. Her first time. Chicken, pork belly, sausage, beans. Very yummy. Next time will use more moisture.

Tender chicken breasts...stir fry veggies. Home made wheat bread on the side.

Today...with the left over chicken breasts...made 17 Chimichangas. Wheat tortillas for HIM...flour for me.

Nice to see your chicken breast meals Nicole.

Pistachio pesto spaghetti. I replaced the usual pine nuts with pistachios and liked it so much more. Fresh basil from the garden.

Looks good Neely. I've been making an All-Greens pesto the past year that has become a favorite in our rotation. A dozen 1/2 pints in the freezer.

Another in rotation this winter...Beans and Greens Sopa Azteca. (tortilla soup)

Making oxtail tonight.

Also made chicken wings, but a picture now would be a pile of bones.

That’s a good amount of pesto to have in the freezer Sleeve… it must have taken a lot of greens to get that amount.

Slice of salmon with nuked potato and chopped spinach. I didn’t make my usual mustard sauce, just a squeeze of lemon was fine

We had salmon Saturday. A weekly favorite.

Last night's Sunday Dinner...

made another batch of chocolate mini waffles

Monday night. Chickpea, roasted carrot and saffron stew.

Had some people over for St Patty’s Day. Our friend L_____ made corned beef, cabbage, potatoes, carrots which was delicious. We sang Happy Birthday to our friend K_____ who died last summer; her birthday was March 17.

Tuesday: butternut squash and sage risotto. Chicory.

Good healthy meals there floral and what an attractive platter of Cornbeef and cabbage for your St Pat’s Day meal JL.

My St Patrick’s Day Meal was Guinness pie with mashed potato and butter sweated cabbage …all good.

I basically used a Jamie Oliver recipe for the pie filling which includes a dash of soy sauce for umami as well as the Guinness I made short crust pastry for the bottom of the pie and bought puff pastry for the top. The puff pastry top didn’t quite go to plan as I let it get too defrosted and warm so it was very floppy placing it over the filling. I was a bit stressed with the top pastry but then thought ”what the heck, it’s only pie” and so just folded the edges around on top of themselves. It cut and served quite nicely.

Tasty-looking pie. I've never tried one with two different pastries.

Wednesday: baked hake steak

Guinness Pie look great!

Annie, how did you fare in that storm last week. Yikes, that was a big snow dump.

I've been freezer shopping. Lots of choices from the past two 'storm prep' events.

No idea what 'lo mein' is as a dish. Just picked a random noodle from the pantry. From my last 'GreatEasternSun' order.

Last night, a recent family favorite...

the last pint of last months batch of chili

uncovered a sirloin chunk for another batch

pulled out a salmon fillet for tonight

Saturday: griddled prawns with wild garlic pesto. Grilled trout, parsley new potatoes, purple sprouting broccoli.

Thursday: one of my favourite meals. Moules marinière.

Oooo moules!

It was my birthday on Thursday, and DD asked what I wanted for my birthday dinner. Lamb radiatore, I said. This is a dish that I ordered all the time at our favorite local Italian eatery, until they cruelly discontinued it, never to reappear again. This keeps happening to me. Three years ago our local brewery dropped their “Luscious Lupilin” beer, that I’ve been drinking for a decade, and have refused to restore it, no matter how much I whine and wheedle. My radiatore has gone the same sad way. This is hard. I’m old, and don’t like change.

DD questioned me about the dish. We decided to use half lamb, half pork, and to use ground meat rather than hand chopping. Plenty of umami from anchovies and suchlike, not too much tomato, long slow cooking, and radiatore pasta bought from that same eatery’s little market. It was almost the same as my long lamented dish, and the next day, a bit of heavy cream into the leftovers closed the gap.

Served with a radicchio salad, carmelized leeks, olives, a cheese platter, and creme bruleé.

Another birthday. Sigh. But I’m creeping closer to Medicare eligibility, and that’s good, because what is happening to the ACA is making that coverage expensive indeed. SWMBO got on Medicare last year, and she enjoys taunting me about it :-(

Annie, my daughter is in love with foxes! Your picture is so sweet.

I'm enjoying the food pictures too

Happy birthday!

The pasta looks excellent John. DD nailed it.

A good candidate for 'big batch'. (a few pints for the freezer)

I'm just cooking for one, three or four, so always a bit for the freezer...

So, freezer shopping. It is thinning like this time every early Spring.

Surprised DH with the last of the French Onion.

Friday brunch after yet another eye appointment...

My recipes makes about 8 servings. Made the pasta, the grilled cheese, and the last pint in the freezer for brunch.

Time to make another batch.